Benjamin Disraeli Gen Quotations

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.